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2013: Four Seasons of Little Artshram Goodness in Traverse City and North West Michigan

2013 marks the 20th Anniversary Year for ARTSPACE and Little Artshram and we have four seasonal themed events happening for our friends, family, and neighbors and we’d like to meet and welcome even more:

Spring 2013- Beginning in late February we will be offering our annual services as a puppet and mask-making “factory” creating new puppets and repairing the old for a fresh walk along the streets of Traverse City as we celebrate the 24th Annual Grand Traverse Earth Day Paradeon SATURDAY, APRIL 20th, 2013. Preparations and collaborations are underway to make this the BEST Earth Day Parade ever in North West Michigan.

On May 5th we will join a world-wide celebration for International Permaculture Day, with special events and perma-blitzing happening all over the Grand Traverse Region with our “Sibling Organizations”. Check the website for details, as collaborative plans unfold!

Summer 2013- We are scheduling five (5) weeks of permaculture Summer Camp for children and youth, 5 years and older, which will begin in Mid-June and continue being offered through August.

Our camps are a creative, outdoor experience focused on discovering the intelligence of nature at work, care-taking the Earth and giving something back, with an emphasis on natural art, cooperative games and hands-on activities.

The 2013 summer camps will focus on a fun, and informative exploration of a permaculture. We will be sharing a powerful set of learning to grow our own food in “tame” gardens, and gather food in “wild” gardens, we’ll share art-making and nature skills that are sure to awaken a deeper understanding of our connection to each other and to the outside world, by being outdoors all day long!

Late Summer or Early Fall 2013- Little Artshram is pleased to announce to all Michigan-area permaculture friends, that we are working toward the objective of hosting the first Michigan-area Permaculture Convergence. We invite Michiganders and Mid-Western folk to participate in the initial brainstorming and planning to define this event, and to continue joining in on the process as it unfolds! The idea of this convergence is to offer a new community-building/community-training vision, We will select a site and invite the permaculture designers in the area to create a space for the event to showcase permaculture elements.

When the convergence is over the infrastructure will be left behind for the community to use. This also creates a low impact event on the land being used for the site. It will also serve as an example for the community of a large event with a very small footprint. Next year, the convergence will move to a new Michigan/Mid West community and repeat the process.

This is an enormous opportunity to fuse and highlight the incredible permaculture activity throughout Michigan and possibly the multi-state region.

Winter 2013- In late November, we will be celebrating Little Artshram’s 20th Anniversary of being one of the MOST active and awesome “little” non-profits in Michigan with a “BIG Hairy Deal Pie-Social and Square Dance” Fun-raiser. Please consider joining us as a sponsor and definitely as a guest! Stay posted for details and the final date tba.

We THANK YOU with depths of gratitude from our Little Artshram hearts, for your long-time consideration and support of our efforts and many successes in bringing folks of all ages together in all sorts of creative ways in our various adventures across the whole State of Michigan–or at least from Lansing to Traverse City!

We’ve had a plethora of amazing children, some of who are “all grown up” now out in the big-wide world. Some of our young friends are beginning to teach in Little Artshram programs, or start their own! We’ve had SO many fine folks involved with our organization, through our board members, teachers and presenters, apprentices and mentors, and very grateful for the many, many ways that you all have supported us!

THANK YOU! AND, Please stand by for more details, or jump in and get involved in 2013!

Featured Sibling Organization:

Grow Share Feed

January 17, 2013 · by Lish Brown · in Food as Health
In the United States, many (most) of us have gotten incredibly disconnected from our food supply. For our health & well-being it is time for this to change for all of us. My goals of Grow Share Feed and all I do are to help us all transition easily into healthy eating & growing our own food. (Click banner to read more)